2015 J/24 US National Championship - Day 1

by Julie & Christopher Howell on 23 May 2015 Chris Snow and his team on Bogus gained the early advantage on day 1 of the J/24 US National Championship, hosted by the Berkeley Yacht Club in Berkeley, CA. Snow, from the San Diego Yacht Club in southern California, has current J/24 World Champion Will Welles among his crew.

The team posted a one ,two, three on Friday. Just two notches behind Bogus is David Klatt’s Jaded of Ventura, CA with eight points. Tokuma Takesue’s Gekko from Japan stands in third with 12 points. Twenty-five teams are participating in the event.

Snow took control of the opening bout, when winds were between 10-12 knots on San Francisco Bay. Mark Laura’s Baba Louie trailed in second, and Klatt in third. In the next race, it was Takesue’s Gekko in the top spot, as Snow dropped to second and Scott Milne’s Tremendous Slouch completed the top trio. Klatt claimed the victory in Friday’s final contest, followed by Carl Sheath’s Suspence (who subsequently incurred a 20% scoring penalty) and Snow. The breeze increased to 14-16 knots by the start of race three.

Racing continues through Sunday.

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Results:

Sail	Boat	Skipper	Yacht Club		1	2	3		Total	Pos
5208	Bogus	Chris Snow	SDYC		1	2	3		6	1
1892	Jaded	David Klatt	Ventura YC		3	4	1		8	2
JPN5449	GEKKO	Tokuma Takesue	Japan Sailing Federation		6	1	5		12	3
2365	Baba Louie	Mark Laura	SYC		2	7	4		13	4
USA 5253	3 Big Dogs	Pat Toole	Santa Barbara YC		5	5	6		16	5
USA 4906	TMC Racing	Michael Whitfield	Berkeley Yacht Club		4	6	7		17	6
3421	Suspence	Carl Sheath	Corinthian Yacht Club, Seattle		12	9	7/SCP		28	7
USA1898	Critter	James Baurley	SMWYC		10	11	9		30	8
5350	Feral Rooster	paul van ravenswaay	severn sailing association		7	8	20/SCP		35	9
126	GIGGLES	Natalie Penner	AYC		18	13	8		39	10
513	Shut up and drive	Val Lulevich	none		8	22/SCP	10		40	11
2394	Downtown Uproar	Darren Cumming	None		9	10	23/SCP		42T	12
674	Garage Sail	Tim Sauer	North Flathead Yacht Club		14	14	14		42T	13
USA 5471	Tremendous Slouch	Scott Milne	CYC Seattle		16/SCP	3	26/RET		45	14
USA4268	Little Wing	Luther Strayer	Barstable YC		26/RET	12	11		49	15
2160	TBD	Steve Hendricks	Santa Barbara Sailing Club		13	15	22/SCP		50	16
2950	Joss	Noel Morgan	Seattle CYC		17	18	16		51	17
2176	Evil Octopus	JASPER VAN VLIET	RYC		15	16	21		52	18
3732	Djinn	Nojan Moshiri	CYC Seattle		20	20	13		53	19
4339	R.Y.L.A.H.	John Mason	CYC/SYC		16	21	23		60	20
USA 1036	Flight	Randall Rasicot	Richmond Yacht Club		23	26/SCP	12		61	21
2257	Bullet	Thomas Tunberg	SBYC		26/SCP	19	20		65	22
3839	Irrational	Chris Dukelow	Seattle Corinthian		26/SCP	26/SCP	19		71	23
2722	Thunder Cookie	Jorge Martin-de-Nicolas	Austin Yacht Club		22	24	26/SCP		72	24
3316	woof	wally whittier	none		24	25	24		73	25